The need to read - Test 3

C2 Proficiency · Word Formation · Cambridge English Proficiency 2, Cambridge University Press

For questions 1–8, read the text below. Use the word given in capitals at the end of some of the lines to form a word that fits in the gap in the same line.

DEMOCRACY

COUNTER

INSTINCT

STAND

REVOLVE

CONDITION

IN

BED

All children (0) ___ ask why we should bother reading. Now, 500 years after Gutenberg's printing press (1) ___ reading, recent technological advances mean psychologists may be able to find an answer. Using brain scans, they have found we create mental simulations of situations (2) ___ in a book and weave these together with real-life experiences to create a new way of thinking. This is something many of us will understand (3) ___ when we look back and realise that an (4) ___ book that we read in the past had an absolutely (5) ___ effect on how we view the world. This transformation takes place only when we lose ourselves (6) ___ in a book. Studies have found this deep reading makes us more sympathetic, more alert to the (7) ___ lives of others. Here then is the irrefutable answer to our initial question, and it means that reading must continue to be (8) ___ in our culture.

The need to read

OCCASION

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